Gear up for tactical online mech combat in War Robots: Frontiers! A new Crossplay Playtest is available to Xbox Insiders from January 28 until February 3. This time were testing out crossplay with other platforms, voice chat, console performance, a brand-new user interface, and a bunch more new features. Jump in to unlock an exclusive Fractured Sparrow Stickeryours to keep in the full version of War Robots: Frontiers.Were grateful for how our team worked together to rework the entire user interface, introducing a fresh new style and making meaningful improvements to the Robot construction experience, says Parisa Zhong, UI/UX Director for War Robots: Frontiers.Player feedback about this from the last Xbox Insider playtest was invaluable, and we immediately started working on ways to improve its clarity, usability, and intuitiveness. The concept of Factory Robots, pre-defined builds designed to help new players get started more easily, is also much clearer now.About War Robots: FrontiersWar Robots: Frontiers is an online multiplayer mech shooter that brings the War Robots universe to the stars. Construct War Robots, squad up online, and unleash the mechanical precision and power of colossal war machines in battle.You are the Pilot and the engineer. Whether you excel at speed plays, all-out assaults, or defensive strategies, theres a playstyle and a mech for you. Build the perfect War Robot and customize it with the huge selection of Pilots, weapons, and modules at your disposal. You can also unlock special cosmetics to complement your best builds!Three modes are available: fight for the most kills in Team Deathmatch, battle to survive in Last Robot Standing, and run control on points in Warp Rush. Play with your friends via Xbox Insider to discover the art of mech combat ahead of the games free-to-play launch on Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One later in 2025. For more information, visit the website at warrobotsfrontiers.com.War Robots: Frontiers is still in development, so you might encounter technical or gameplay issues that impact your gameplay experience. We rely on your feedback from playtests like this to help improve and polish the game drop a message to our support team if you need help or want to report an issue!How to Participate:Sign in on your Xbox Series X|S or Xbox One console and launch the Xbox Insider Hub app (install the Xbox Insider Hub from the Store first if necessary).Navigate to Previews > War Robots: Frontiers Beta.Select Join.Wait for the registration to complete, and you should be directed to the Store page to install it.Console Playtest Times:Sign Up: Friday, January 24th, 11:00 CET (10:00 GMT / 02:00 PT / 05:00 ET)Start: Tuesday, January 28th, 14:00 CET (13:00 GMT / 05:00 PT / 08:00 ET)End: Monday, February 3rd, 11:00 CET (10:00 GMT / 02:00 PT / 05:00 ET)How to Provide Feedback:If you experience any issues while playing War Robots: Frontiers, dont forget to use Report a problem so we can investigate:Hold down the home button on your Xbox controller.Select Report a problem.Select the Games category and War Robots: Frontiers Beta subcategory.Fill out the form with the appropriate details to help our investigation.Other resources:For more information: follow us on Twitter at @XboxInsider and this blog for release notes, announcements, and more. And feel free to interact with the community on the Xbox Insider SubReddit.

Jan 24, 2025Ravie LakshmananIT Fraud / CybercrimeThe U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday indicted two North Korean nationals, a Mexican national, and two of its own citizens for their alleged involvement in the ongoing fraudulent information technology (IT) worker scheme that seeks to generate revenue for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in violation of international sanctions.The action targets Jin Sung-Il (), Pak Jin-Song (), Pedro Ernesto Alonso De Los Reyes, Erick Ntekereze Prince, and Emanuel Ashtor. Alonso, who resides in Sweden, was arrested in the Netherlands on January 10, 2025, after a warrant was issued.All five defendants have been charged with conspiracy to cause damage to a protected computer, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to transfer false identification documents. Jin and Pak have also been charged with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. If convicted, each of them faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.The development is the latest step taken by the U.S. government to disrupt the ongoing campaign that involves North Korean nationals using forged and stolen identities to obtain remote IT work at U.S. companies through laptop farms operated within the country.Other efforts include the August 2024 arrest of a Tennessee man for helping North Koreans land jobs in U.S. firms and the indictment of 14 DPRK nationals last month for purportedly generating $88 million over the course of a six-year conspiracy. Last week, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned two North Korean nationals and four companies based in Laos and China for their work on the IT worker scheme."From approximately April 2018 through August 2024, the defendants and their unindicted co-conspirators obtained work from at least sixty-four U.S. companies," the DoJ said. "Payments from ten of those companies generated at least $866,255 in revenue, most of which the defendants then laundered through a Chinese bank account."According to the indictment document, Jin applied for a position at an unnamed U.S. IT company in June 2021 by using Alonso's identity with his consent and one of Ntekereze's New York addresses, subsequently securing the opportunity for a salary of $120,000 per year.Ashtor's North Carolina residence, per the department, operated a laptop farm that hosted the company-provided laptops with the goal of deceiving the companies into thinking that their new hires were located in the country when, in reality, they have been found to remotely log in to these systems from China and Russia.Both Ntekereze and Ashtor received laptops from U.S. company employers at their homes and proceeded to download and install remote access software like AnyDesk and TeamViewer without authorization in order to facilitate the remote access. They also conspired to launder payments for the remote IT work through a variety of accounts designed to promote the scheme and conceal its proceeds.In furtherance of the scheme, Ntekereze is said to have used his company Taggcar Inc. to invoice a U.S. staffing company eight times, totaling about $75,709, for the IT work performed by Jin, who was masquerading as Alonso. A portion of the payment was then transferred to an online payment platform held in the name of Alonso that was accessible to both Jin and Alonso.The wide-ranging effort by North Korea to have their citizens employed at companies across the world is seen as an attempt to earn high-paying IT salaries that can be funneled back to the country to serve the regime's priorities and gain access to sensitive documents for financial leverage.The IT worker scam, as reiterated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a separate advisory, involves the use of pseudonymous email, social media, and online job site accounts, as well as false websites, proxy computers, and witting and unwitting third-parties located in the U.S. and elsewhere."In recent months, in addition to data extortion, FBI has observed North Korean IT workers leveraging unlawful access to company networks to exfiltrate proprietary and sensitive data, facilitate cyber-criminal activities, and conduct revenue-generating activity on behalf of the regime," the agency said."After being discovered on company networks, North Korean IT workers have extorted victims by holding stolen proprietary data and code hostage until the companies meet ransom demands. In some instances, North Korean IT workers have publicly released victim companies' proprietary code."Other instances entail the theft of company code repositories from GitHub and attempts to harvest sensitive company credentials and session cookies to initiate work sessions from non-company devices.It's not just a U.S. phenomenon, as a new report from threat intelligence firm Nisos reveals that several Japanese firms have also landed themselves in the crosshairs of DPRK IT workers. It specifically highlighted the case of one such IT worker who has held software engineering and full-stack developer roles with different firms since January 2023.The IT worker personas have been fleshed out digitally to lend it a veneer of legitimacy, complete with accounts on GitHub and freelance employment websites like LaborX, ProPursuit, Remote OK, Working Not Working, and Remote Hub, not to mention a personal website containing manipulated stock images."The individual appears to be currently employed under the name Weitao Wang at Japanese consulting company, Tenpct Inc., and appears to have been previously employed under the name Osamu Odaka at Japanese software development and consulting firm, LinkX Inc.," the company said in a report shared with The Hacker News.Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.SHARE

Originally from London, Gibson left a position at Camden Council to take up the post of deputy county architect on the remote Scottish archipelago in the late 1960s.In 1972 he left that post to found his own practice, Richard Gibson Architects, through which he became known for his low-rise housing befitting Shetlands sometimes harsh coastal environment, as well as for his public architecture, including schools, museums and civic pavilions.Nick Brett, Gibsons former co-director at Richard Gibson Architects, said Gibson and his wife Victoria presented a refreshing challenge to the embedded conventions and values of early 1970s pre-oil Shetland and brought colour to Shetland in both an abstract and literal sense.AdvertisementGibsons most celebrated projects include the Hamnavoe Primary School and the re-working of Symbister House, Shetlands most outstanding Georgian building. Source:ne gibson architectsHamnavoe Primary SchoolAmong his notable housing projects are John Jamieson Closs (1984), a 10-home scheme; Gremista Housing, a 48-home scheme consisting of semi-detached homes and flats (1999); and Grdians, a colourful social housing development in Lerwick (2011).These projects, across several sites in Lerwick, were all commissioned by the Hjaltland Housing Association. Source:ne gibson architectsGrdiansGibsons early Shetland projects often consisted of harling-rendered concrete blocks, but he later switched to timber-framed and clad buildings after becoming disillusioned with the excessive quantities of Shetland pebbles required for the earlier renders.Architectural critic Rowan Moore has praised Gibsons work as characterised by care with the shared spaces between homes and by a responsiveness to the landscape and constructional traditions of Shetland.AdvertisementGibson himself said architecture was not about designing icons but making a framework for people to live their lives. Source:ne gibson architectsGremistaHe was recognised with a lifetime achievement award by the Royal Institute of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) in 2010.Born in 1935 and the son of architect Alec Gibson, Richard Gibson trained at the Architectural Association in the same cohort as Richard Rogers, Georgie Wolton and Neave Brown and later at the Slade School of Art.He worked for British Rail, Middlesex County Council Schools Division and Camden Council and built his own mews house in Camden, which later inspired his friend Ted Cullinan to do the same before moving to the Shetlands in 1968.Describing the career U-turn in a Guardian obituary, Moore said Gibson had the career of a promising metropolitan architect but disliked the office politics at Camden and so applied for the Shetlands job.Gibson managed to keep his Shetlands practice going through its unremunerative early years with the help of income from his wife Victorias successful knitwear business, according to the architecture critic.Gibson retired in 2016, but his practice has continued under the name ne gibson architects, now run by Gibsons former co-director, Adrian Wishart. Source:ne gibson architectsDa VadillTribute by Nick Brett, Gibson's now-retired former co-directorRichard had a rather casual, unhurried air about him, never pushy and always courteous and calm. He managed a remarkable alchemy of successfully entrusting employees with freedom and responsibility to design and run projects with care.Like the qualities of the man, the buildings that Richards practice produced were understated and well-considered. His design approach was primarily one of integration and context, rather than the more rigorous modernism of the London peers with whom he studied and identified. If there is value in making comparison, then his design approach was closer in influence to that of his late friend Ted Cullinan.Richards 50 years of practicing as an architect in Shetland has left a legacy of well-crafted schemes and buildings dotted throughout the isles. The urban housing schemes and civic projects made a significant contribution to the built fabric and townscape of Lerwick and Scalloway.The Vadill housing scheme in Lerwick was to be the last project that Richard personally ran and it is a fine testimony to his skill in resolving a complex and awkward site in the town with a deceptively simple radial layout.Richard and Victoria were very much a team. Throughout their long marriage they supported one another in their respective architecture practice and Victorias successful knitwear business.Their family holidayed, sailed and played at their off-grid weekend 'Tardis' of a bunkhouse on the west coast of Shetland. Much of this converted ruined croft house was hands-on built over a decade. The result is a building has a delightful light touch. A credit to a decent, capable man who lived a good life.

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Nintendo Switch Online adds three more SNES games, promising puzzles, brawls and ninjasFatal Fury 2! Super Ninja Boy! Sutte Hakkun!Image credit: Nintendo News by Victoria Kennedy News Reporter Published on Jan. 24, 2025 Nintendo has added another three classic games to its SNES Switch Online collection, including one not seen in the west before.The Mario maker promises "puzzles, brawls and ninjas galore" with these latest editions, which are as follows:Sutte HakkunFatal Fury 2Super Ninja BoyHere's a little trailer for the three games, to give you a taste of what's in store.Play FATAL FURY 2 and more classic Super NES games with Nintendo Switch Online! Watch on YouTubeFatal Fury 2 is a SNES port of SNK's arcade fighting game. Will you choose to fight as Terry Bogard, or his younger brother Andy? Or perhaps wrestling as Big Bear is more your thing.As for Sutte Hakkun, it's this chap's first official time in the west. It's a cute looking puzzler, where players control a little bird-like creature who can suck up liquids of different colours and then inject that liquid into once-colourless blocks to move them in different directions.In case you were unaware, Nintendo Switch Online members can get themselves access to multiple NES, Super NES and Game Boy games.Additionally, those who choose to go for the higher priced Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack option will also be able to get their mitts on Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance and SEGA Mega Drive games, along with other perks. That includes things like expansions for other Nintendo games, such as Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass.You can check out the full run down of games available on Nintendo's subscription service via our handy guide: All Nintendo Switch Online games available to play right now.As for Nintendo more generally, last week it finally unveiled the Switch 2, with a dedicated Direct set for April.

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ExpectationsWarner Bros Games CEO is leaving the company in the wake of MultiVersus and Suicide Squad fumblesEven with Warner Bros' size, it's clearly struggled in the video game department.Image credit: VG247/Warner Bros. Games News by Connor Makar Staff Writer Published on Jan. 24, 2025 The CEO of Warner Bros Games - David Haddad - has announced his departure from the company following a rough few years in terms of the company's video game releases. It looks as though games like MultiVersus and Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League haven't hit expectations set by the media giant.Speaking to Variety, Warner Bros Discovery's global streaming and games CEO stated, "David has thoughtfully and purposefully chosen a time when our release schedule is lighter which will help minimize disruption to our ongoing projects and strategic plans and allow this team to smoothly prepare for its next record-breaking title". Haddad will stay on for three months while a replacement is established.To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Variety has also written, thanks to information from a source, that in spite of this roadbump there is not intention to sell off the gaming division. Instead, a change in leadership is the sole priority at the current time. In an internal call yesterday, it was confirmed that Haddad will be leaving, with the soon-to-be former CEO saying the following to his peers according to VGC,"I am so proud of everything weve accomplished together at Warner Bros. Games during my time with the company. It has been an absolute pleasure working on and building our iconic gaming franchises, and I will continue to be an enthusiastic supporter of this talented teams future endeavors. I look forward to working on the next chapter of my career and will always be grateful for my time with Warner Bros. Games."The struggles impacting the gaming division of Warner Bros has been no secret. MultiVersus, that first released in a limited open beta, proved extremely popular initially. However, upon its full release months later, it quickly lost steam among casual Warner Bros fans and fighting game players. As of writing, the game has has hit a peak player count of 1,144 on Steam in the past month.Suicide Squad on the other hand has seen a series of issues. It didn't launch to a particularly high number of players considering how long it was in development. Not to mention, the game was met with mixed reviews.What the company really needs is a big win, but where can it come from? Well, Dune appears to be the hot IP under its IP umbrella, and you've got Dune Awakening on the horizon. Perhaps if it pops off, it'll point the way for the department's future. That future, regardless of outside factors, will need to be led by a strong CEO. We'll have to sit back and wait a while to find out who'll be steering the ship to safer waters.

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Executive joined the company in 2002.Nippon Ichi Software has announced that its president and CEO, Tetsuhisa Seko, has sadly passed away at the age of 54.Born on 21st January, Showa 46 (1971 which, despite NIS stating his age as 55, would make him 54 at the time of his death), Seko joined the company back in March 2002 after previous stints at SNK Co., Ltd and Toshin Co., Ltd.Read the full article on nintendolife.com